Erie man charged in gun threat

City police accuse him of showing a weapon while confronting a woman on Prospect Avenue Sunday night.

Staff report

An Erie man was arraigned Monday morning on charges of pulling a gun on a woman during a confrontation on the city's east side Sunday night.

Gary M. Freiwald, 50, was placed in the Erie County Prison on $40,000 bond after he was arraigned by Erie 6th Ward District Judge Dominick DiPaolo on charges of carrying a firearm without a license, terroristic threats, simple assault and public drunkenness in an incident that happened in the 2600 block of Prospect Avenue on Sunday at about 6:30 p.m.

Erie police charge that Freiwald had a black handgun when he left his residence, walked across the street and showed the gun while standing outside of a woman's vehicle. Freiwald put the gun in the air with the intent of scaring the woman, police wrote in the criminal complaint. The woman was not reported injured in the incident.